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What Will Come First This Year? The Masters Or Opening Day?

March 14, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

This year’s proceedings at Augusta National are less than a month away, taking place April 8-11, but golf courses in Canada are getting a jump on the season long before the first men’s major of the year. Certainly, Southern Ontario was basking in springlike conditions last week under sunny skies and temperatures getting close to […]

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Will Virtual Events, Webinars And Video Conferencing Be As Important After The Pandemic Than Before It Began?

March 7, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

Last week, Golf Canada held a virtual annual general meeting while the Canadian Golf Superintendents Association held its Canadian Golf Course Management Conference. This week, the National Golf Course Owners Association of Canada is hosting the virtual Ontario Golf Expo consumer show, after a similar event in British Columbia recently and an upcoming virtual show […]

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If Anyone Tell You When We Return To “Normal,” Ask For A Guarantee In Writing

March 4, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

The most annoying term used in media these days is the term “expert,” as it applies to COVID-19. No disrespect is meant towards the medical community or public health officials with that statement. It’s just that we’re about a year into into the pandemic and coronavirus is something we’ve never dealt with, even if there […]

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Update: Has Hiring For The Season Begun Where You Work?

February 28, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

At the end of January, the GNN Poll asked readers if the golf operation where they work planned to start hiring for the season, or hold off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, 57 per cent of respondents indicated that their employer was holding off, with 43 per cent saying that hiring would […]

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City Announcement Doesn’t Bode Well For 2021 RBC Canadian Open

February 24, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

Just a day after Tuesday’s column here that both the RBC Canadian Open and local and sectional U.S. Open qualifiers in Canada this year are in a precarious situations comes word that specifically seems destined to affect our national championship. The City of Toronto has cancelled all city-permitted outdoor events up to and including Canada […]

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USGA Rolling The Dice With Canadian Qualifiers. Will They Come Up Snake Eyes?

February 23, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

The USGA must have some a couple of Plan Bs up its sleeve, or at least a pipeline into Canada’s federal government that assures golf will somehow be exempt from recent COVID–19 travel restrictions in the next few months. That last one seems unlikely after Canadians caught by the new restrictions either changed plans or […]

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Should COVID–19 Vaccination Be A Condition Of Employment?

February 21, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

It is believed that enough Canadians will get their vaccinations to establish the “herd immunity” that’s required to return life in this country to normal, but that remains to be seen. It’s your turn now. Should agreeing to take COVID–19 vaccination be a condition of employment in the golf industry?

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Will A “Third Wave” Of Coronavirus Delay Your Golf Season?

February 15, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

With golf being deemed a safe sport to play with proper safety protocols in place last year, the experience in 2020 would seemingly make it all systems go into this season, the second during the coronavirus pandemic. With that in mind, is golf necessarily bulletproof against COVID–19, if the “third wave” is as bad as some predict?

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A Good Idea Can Come From Anybody As Golf Goes Into An Important Year

February 11, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

The only problem I have with Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is use of the term GOAT to describe him. With seven Super Bowls to his credit, more than any NFL franchise, there are few who could legitimately argue the claim that Brady is the Greatest Of All Time, the title that led to […]

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It’s Your Turn. What’s Your Take On The R&A/USGA Distance Insights Project?

February 7, 2021 By Ian Hutchinson

As I mentioned in this column last week, the R&A and USGA are reaching out to the golf industry for feedback on areas of interest and changes to proposed equipment standards as part of their joint Distance Insights project. You can see last week’s joint statement from the governing bodies here. Judging by the reactions […]

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